Professional Growth Plan

Quality assurance and professional growth

Goals
The goal of the evaluation process is to improve student learning. It is designed to be meaningful, developmental and personalized for each faculty member. The process is collaborative and participatory, and it considers adult learning principles. Its multi-year approach provides authentic and individual feedback.

Additional goals:
We require annual performance appraisal with written feedback on each teacher:

• Two written evaluations for new teachers and one each year for all teachers.

The accreditation and school improvement process has articulated a number of initiatives which should be considered in the developing process.

Guiding Principles
The process will be:

• collaborative and participatory
• guided by research-based best practices in teacher evaluation and adult learning
• authentic
• mission driven
• differentiated and relevant to the needs of individual teachers including choices regarding approaches to professional learning

Essential Elements
The Framework for Teaching
Summative plans for new teachers
Formative and summative plans for experienced teachers
Accountability for meeting the standards of the school (Framework for teaching)

Two presumptions
New teachers: The presumption of support and continued learning
Experienced teachers: The presumption of competence and professional growth